To Lefty from Willie
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To Lefty from Willie
To Lefty From Willie is the twenty-first studio album by country singer Willie Nelson. Recorded in 1975, the album sat in the vaults of Columbia Records until 1977. This album is Willie Nelson's tribute to fellow country singer Lefty Frizzell. -Wikipedia
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Robert Christgau
Although Nelson earned his legend as a songwriter, he's turning into a singer now that profit-taking time has come--does broaden one. The amazing thing is that he gets away with it. On this heartfelt if opportune farewell to Lefty Frizzell, his cracks and creaks and precisely conversational timing hold their own against the more conventionally exquisite singing of Merle Haggard or Frizzell himself. Of course, the material doesn't hurt.
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All Music
Nelson is respectful without being overly reverential, giving his own spin to each song without abandoning their honky tonk roots.
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The Music Box
2003 -To Lefty from Willy was a labor of love, but it also turned out to be the one of the finest collections of Frizzell’s songs ever compiled.
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Country Standard Time
Despite the brevity, this is Willie at his bare minimum, retro-country outlaw finest.
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